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teethgrinder posted:Happened to me once (like twenty years ago)... but I was the only guy with a group of women. Whoever it was was probably trying to get one of them with our drinks all together on the table. Most trashed I'd ever felt, after 1.5 drinks, and it took every ounce of my willpower to get home. Sketchy after-hours place. Live and learn or something. the first time it happened to me I was an a first date, thankfully the woman I was with and the bartender recognized what was happening and my date took me home with her. (I was a regular at the spot as was she, but not at overlapping times until recently. all these circumstances added up well for me but any one of them having been different would’ve been really bad.) i remember nothing. we dated for about a year after that. and yes, I’m positive none of the folks I described as helpful were responsible for slipping the mickey or intending me harm.
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Regarde Aduck posted:lol at having a deathwish because cars made you jaded car apologia is a deathwish bud evil_bunnY posted:I'm not gonna die, but you're the one laughing :| I feel like virtually zero drivers understand this and never adjust their dashboard dimmer or anything
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How do people not remember their mom/dad screaming at them for turning on the overhead light in the car when driving in the dark???? edit: vvv you aren't wrong vvv silicone thrills has issued a correction as of 00:34 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Overhead light poo poo absolutely doesn't matter anymore now that the night sky is completely starless and every car you pass is shining its LED floodlights directly into your windshield
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I refuse to drive at night and it infuriates my family when I insist on leaving gatherings during the daylight (they unfortunately all live in a place that can only be accessed by car)
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LIterallyABikeshop posted:I refuse to drive at night and it infuriates my family when I insist on leaving gatherings during the daylight (they unfortunately all live in a place that can only be accessed by car) It sounds like you just don't like your family.
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Ham Equity posted:It sounds like you just don't like your family. I'll like em a lot less if I die in some bullshit car accident
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Driving at night is easy mode. Everything else on the road either identifies itself with blazing beacons (car friends) or it’s poo poo that you don’t have to worry about (pedestrians).
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BonHair posted:Does your Google maps not have the bike option?  though i wouldn't use it if it did either, google maps is loving atrocious for non-car navigation
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Platystemon posted:Driving at night is easy mode.
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Platystemon posted:Driving at night is easy mode. biking at night on the other hand rules and you can bet I have insanely bright lights that drivers can see from a mile+ away
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Biking at night would rule more if there weren't cars
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lobster shirt posted:everyone should drive a golf cart instead of a huge truck Move to The Villages and you too can get run over by boomers running golf carts at 60 miles an hour with 0 crash protection or belt restraints.
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webcams for christ posted:you need to start going to better bars
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Truga posted:google maps is loving atrocious for non-car navigation I find it works fine for walking and public transport, but the bike directions are loving insane. It will literally double the length of your trip and take you out of your way to ensure you get onto a scenic bike path. It'll take pointless diversions off a street and then back onto it (left, right, right, left or vice versa). You'll have to add multiple waypoints along a single street to keep it going in a straight line. There are some corners it refuses to take, so even adding a waypoint just makes it go right up to the corner before turning around and going back to where it originally wanted to. It's annoying as poo poo.
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are there any apps or devices that reliably do turn-by-turn cycling directions? like my garmin edge doesn't reliably know the difference between road and gravel. I feel like the only way to be really safe is Strava, but that's only beforehand, not on the fly
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lobster shirt posted:everyone should drive a golf cart instead of a huge truck been saying this
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withak posted:I blew a friend's mind when I turned the brightness down on their infotainment display to a reasonable level. its cool how being an early android adopter empowers one to know how to fish for all this poo poo in all these piece of poo poo electronics lol. or i guess also a linux user. anyone who's, uh, "YOSPOS" brained. so they say
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lobster shirt posted:ive never felt my life was in danger at a bar i got threatened by a big beefy lunk once... for trolling him IRL
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Overhead light poo poo absolutely doesn't matter anymore now that the night sky is completely starless and every car you pass is shining its LED floodlights directly into your windshield lobster shirt posted:ive never felt my life was in danger at a bar evil_bunnY has issued a correction as of 10:37 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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i say swears online posted:local man takes photo of pedestrian death once a month from same place for a whole year Autolemma (2022)
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gonna have to plan a trip to Paris next year. only 4.5 hours by train https://x.com/slucy/status/1734282763128250419
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Rode my bike out to the animal bite clinic today to get some rabies shots. It's nice being able to avoid all the traffic, especially during this time of the year when the holiday rush means traffic is crushingly bad. I also noticed that cycling makes the city a lot more navigable, because you can stop [almost] whenever you want, take out your phone, and get your bearings. The clinic was in a part of town I'd never been to before, but I could pause every other street corner to make sure I was going the right way. If you go down the wrong way, just get off your bike and walk back! If I was in a car I'd probably be driving around in circles and/or risking getting a ticket for doing something I shouldn't have because I wasn't familiar enough with the area.
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I’m sorry that you got bitten by an animal, relieved that you don’t live in the United States where those shots are several thousand dollars.
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Platystemon posted:I’m sorry that you got bitten by an animal, relieved that you don’t live in the United States where those shots are several thousand dollars. thank you my insurance covered the first round of shots. They're expensive enough that I was going to hit my policy's coverage limit for animal bites if I got the second (and third) shots at a private hospital (which was the closest facility right after I got bit) ... ... but fortunately the government-run animal bite clinics do them for free, as long as you're willing to go in the morning to beat the lines.
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webcams for christ posted:are there any apps or devices that reliably do turn-by-turn cycling directions? like my garmin edge doesn't reliably know the difference between road and gravel. i use komoot since all the basic features are free and it suits my needs, though tbf i dunno how strava works because they require a login to even try it
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Tiggum posted:I find it works fine for walking and public transport, but the bike directions are loving insane. It will literally double the length of your trip and take you out of your way to ensure you get onto a scenic bike path. It'll take pointless diversions off a street and then back onto it (left, right, right, left or vice versa). You'll have to add multiple waypoints along a single street to keep it going in a straight line. There are some corners it refuses to take, so even adding a waypoint just makes it go right up to the corner before turning around and going back to where it originally wanted to. It's annoying as poo poo. webcams for christ posted:gonna have to plan a trip to Paris next year. only 4.5 hours by train 
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evil_bunnY posted:Isn't this down to map quality? In most places I've been it's "fine", tho never great. The thing about the weird corners it refuses to use could be a map issue though? Somehow those corners may have been marked as impossible to travel through on a bike? But it's weirdly common on otherwise unremarkable streets.
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Bike directions are non-trivial because there's no real way for the computer to tell how good a given road is for biking, not that google particularly seems interested in trying to improve it
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webcams for christ posted:gonna have to plan a trip to Paris next year. only 4.5 hours by train I think this thread is mostly insane people but this is unironically ftw
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Regarde Aduck posted:I think this thread is mostly insane people but this is unironically ftw sounds like you agree with the thread of mostly insane people then
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Regarde Aduck posted:I think this thread is mostly insane people but this is unironically ftw thinking about the effects cars have on society too much does make you insane
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When I first started using it, Google Maps was amazing for biking in Toronto. I was blown away it could take me on back (paved) trails through parklands and stuff. Even in suburbia. It used to be very current with closures as well. It went to complete poo poo at some point since COVID and regularly tries to steer me through closed routes and doesn't have a clue how to get me home from unfamiliar places any longer.
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mystes posted:Bike directions are non-trivial because there's no real way for the computer to tell how good a given road is for biking, not that google particularly seems interested in trying to improve it
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Google gives plenty fine bike directions in Denmark in my experience, have you tried updating your infrastructure?
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it's 32F here and had an INSANELY nice 5-minute bike ride to work. Thanks to poagies, studded tires and a balaclava, I was insanely warm and safe. Would have walked but I was running late to a meeting that I didn't actually have
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